New AWS Region in Thailand to Launch by Early 2025
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been serving customers in Thailand since 2006. In 2015, AWS established a local presence by opening an office in Bangkok, enabling the company to drive innovation and provide transformative cloud capabilities to organizations across Thai industries. Today, AWS reaffirmed its commitment, announcing that its new AWS Asia Pacific (Bangkok) Region will be live by early 2025. This investment of more than 190 billion baht (US$5 billion) in Thailand by 2037 will provide developers, startups, entrepreneurs, and enterprises, as well as government, education, and nonprofit organizations, with greater choice when running their applications and serving end users from data centers located in Thailand.
The new AWS Region in Thailand will add to the existing AWS infrastructure in the country, including 10 Amazon CloudFront edge locations, AWS Outposts, and AWS Local Zones. The new AWS Region, the fourth Region launched in ASEAN after Singapore, Indonesia, and Malaysia, which is due to go live in 2024, will also enable customers with data residency preferences to store data securely in Thailand, help customers achieve even lower latency, and serve demand for cloud services across Southeast Asia.
Thailand’s growing digital economy is propelling the country forward as a regional powerhouse for innovation under the “Ignite Thailand” ambition. The convergence of strategic investments, a clear vision for the nation’s digital future, and technological prowess have unleashed a transformative energy that is reshaping industries, empowering businesses, and elevating the nation on the global stage.
Aligned with the government’s “Ignite Thailand” plan, the country’s cloud-first ambition aiming to build a thriving economy driven by innovation, creativity, and technology, the new AWS Region in Thailand will play a pivotal role in advancing the country’s digitization ambitions and meeting the high demand for cloud services, while supporting innovation in Thailand and across Southeast Asia. This new infrastructure will nurture a vibrant community where startups, small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs), enterprises, and public sector organizations can collaborate, experiment, and thrive with access to the latest technologies such as generative artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), the Internet of Things (IoT), and more.
“We welcome AWS’s $5 billion investment in the new AWS Thailand Region, which will enable a significant step forward in Thailand’s digital transformation journey. This move strengthens our national infrastructure and empowers the growth of thousands of Thai businesses, entrepreneurs, and startups. This investment aligns with our vision for the Cloud First initiative, aiming to position Thailand as a central hub for the digital economy in Southeast Asia,” said Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin. “The AWS Thailand Region will support economic opportunities, enhance our workforce’s digital skills, and drive innovation. We are committed to collaborating with AWS to maximize the benefits of this development for every Thai citizen, marking a cornerstone in our efforts to turn Thailand into a leading digital economy, providing a solid infrastructure for growth and competitiveness on the global stage,” he added.
Fueling digital transformation for local customers and AWS Partners
In Thailand, AWS’s team is made up of diverse Amazonians from across disciplines and job functions, including sales, solutions architects, training and certification, and business development. This team is dedicated to supporting organizations of all sizes to build on AWS to fuel their digital transformation. Local Thai customers and partners include 2C2P,Accenture, aCommerce, Amity, Ascend Money, AXONS, Charoen Pokphand Foods Public Company Limited (CPF), DailiTech, G-Able, Kiatnakin Financial Services Group, National Telecom, MONIX, NocNoc, PTT, SiS Distribution, and Toyota.
